Roy Lotz is an English teacher and novelist. Raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York, he studied cultural anthropology at Stony Brook University, graduating summa cum laude in 2013. He wrote his honors thesis on the music of Eastern Africa, a region he twice visited during his studies. From 2015 to 2025, he lived in Madrid, where he started a blog to document his travels around Europe. He also occasionally writes book reviews.